Quotes About Insight

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.

We do not know what things look like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

I like to understand things," Meg said. "We all do. But it isn't always possible.

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That's how it works best.

Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but he is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through.

An old ass knows more than a young colt

Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he?

But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light."—Madeleine L'Engle

Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?

We don't know what things LOOK like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things ARE like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

Qui plus sait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all.

He is : frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.

A journal is not a diary, where you record the weather and the engagements of the day. A journal is a notebook in which one can, hopefully, be ontological.

In this way I have sat in many rooms and walked in many gardens, and it has been as though I were a stick of furniture or a branch of a tree. I seem to have caused no sense of restraint or embarrassment. People have been able to talk freely in front of me, almost as freely as though I weren't there. I suppose some might think this a great compliment; it has given me a curious feeling of nonexistence. Now

I don't underestimate knowledge. But we get into trouble when we confuse it with truth.

You just look at things nobody else can see,' Dennys added, 'and listen to things nobody else can hear, and think about them.' Meg defended her mother. 'It would be a good idea if more people knew how to think. After Mother thinks about something long enough, then she puts it into practice. Or someone else does.